Francophone African Cinema

Author : Samba Diop
Publisher : University Press of the South, Incorporated
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015059585748

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African Francophone Cinema by Samba Diop Pdf

"This short encyclopedic book is destined to students who are interested in African Francophone Film and Cinema. The major contemporary African Francophone filmmakers and their films are treated her. The book discusses a certain number of themes as they are featured in African Francophone Cinema. The interface between cinematographic language and image is also studied. This study reflects the vibrancy of the emergent field of African cinema. Furthermore, the reading and interpretation of the aforementioned themes is a testimony toward the commitment of African filmmakers who re-visit and update a certain number of topics as well as explore new avenues, thus pushing further and further outward the boundaries of filmmaking in Africa." "Thus, many of the films analyzed in this book allow the reader to reflect on some contemporary issues that affect Africans and, at the same time, these films provide for entertainment, fun, and light humor. Thanks to the availability of these films, the African is at once educated and entertained. Beyond Africa, the themes embedded in African Francophone films help toward a letter appreciation and understanding of African Cinema."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : K. Martial Frindéthié
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786453566

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Francophone African Cinema by K. Martial Frindéthié Pdf

Setting the stage for a critical encounter between Francophone African cinema and Continental European critical theory, this book offers a transnational and interdisciplinary analysis of 16 Francophone African films, including Bassek Ba Kobhio's The Great White Man of Lambarene, Cheick Oumar Sissoko's Guimba the Tyrant, and Amadou Seck's Saaraba. The author invites readers to study these films in the context of transnational conversations between African filmmakers and the conventional theorists whose works are more readily available in academia. The book examines black French filmmakers' treatments of a number of cross-cultural themes, including intercontinental encounters and reciprocity, ideology and subjective freedom, governance and moral responsibility, sexuality and social order, and globalization. Throughout the work, the presentation of literary theory is accessible by both beginning and advanced students of film and culture. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Melissa Thackway
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0253343496

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Africa Shoots Back by Melissa Thackway Pdf

Filmmakers in sub-Saharan francophone Africa have been using cinema since independence in the 1960s to challenge Western stereotypes. This text shows how directors have produced alternatives, focusing on issues of memory and history.

Author : Manthia Diawara
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 025320707X

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African Cinema by Manthia Diawara Pdf

Manthia Diawara provides an insider's account of the history and current status of African cinema. African Cinema: Politics and Culture is the first extended study in English of Sub-Saharan cinema. Employing an interdisciplinary approach which draws on history, political science, economics, and cultural studies, Diawara discusses such issues as film production and distribution, and film aesthetics from the colonial period to the present. The book traces the growth of African cinema through the efforts of pioneer filmmakers such as Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Oumarou Ganda, Jean-René Débrix, Jean Rouch, and Ousmane Sembène, the Pan-African Filmmakers' Organization (FEPACI), and the Ougadougou Pan-African Film Festival (FESPACO). Diwara focuses on the production and distribution histories of key films such as Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl and Mandabi (1968) and Souleymane Cissé's Fine (1982). He also examines the role of missionary films in Africa, Débrix's ideas concerning 'magic, ' the links between Yoruba theater and Nigerian cinema, and the parallels between Hindu mythologicals in India and the Yoruba-theater - inflected films in Nigeria. Diawara also looks at film and nationalism, film and popular culture, and the importance of FESPACO. African Cinema: Politics and Culture makes a major contribution to the expanding discussion of Eurocentrism, the canon, and multi-culturalism.

Author : Françoise Pfaff
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253216680

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Focus on African Films by Françoise Pfaff Pdf

'Focus on African Films' offers pluralistic perspectives on filmmaking across Africa, highlighting the distinct thematic, stylistic, and socioeconomic circumstances of African film production.

Author : Lieve Spaas
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0719058619

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Francophone Film by Lieve Spaas Pdf

Covering the rich film production of Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec, the Caribbean, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa, this book brings together films that might otherwise be divided by questions of race, gender, genre, period, or nation, in a valuable comparative study of a diverse corpus. Individual countries, film-makers, and films are treated separately in order to emphasize their specific identities or those which are represented in their films, and key films are examined within a well-developed historical context. Clearly written and accessible to the specialist and general reader alike, this informative book is a valuable reference source.

Author : Kenneth W. Harrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1628962976

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African Filmmaking by Kenneth W. Harrow Pdf

Author : James E. Genova
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253010117

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Cinema and Development in West Africa by James E. Genova Pdf

“Illuminates the enduring importance of political and economic dynamics not yet fully explored in the study of African cinema.” —Africa Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from French rule to the early postcolonial period. James E. Genova sees the construction of African identities and economic development as the major themes in the political literature and cultural production of the time. Focusing on film both as industry and aesthetic genre, he demonstrates its unique place in economic development and provides a comprehensive history of filmmaking in the region during the transition from colonies to sovereign states.

Author : Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520912365

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Black African Cinema by Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike Pdf

From the proselytizing lantern slides of early Christian missionaries to contemporary films that look at Africa through an African lens, N. Frank Ukadike explores the development of black African cinema. He examines the impact of culture and history, and of technology and co-production, on filmmaking throughout Africa. Every aspect of African contact with and contribution to cinematic practices receives attention: British colonial cinema; the thematic and stylistic diversity of the pioneering "francophone" films; the effects of television on the motion picture industry; and patterns of television documentary filmmaking in "anglophone" regions. Ukadike gives special attention to the growth of independent production in Ghana and Nigeria, the unique Yoruba theater-film tradition, and the militant liberationist tendencies of "lusophone" filmmakers. He offers a lucid discussion of oral tradition as a creative matrix and the relationship between cinema and other forms of popular culture. And, by contrasting "new" African films with those based on the traditional paradigm, he explores the trends emerging from the eighties and nineties. Clearly written and accessible to specialist and general reader alike, Black African Cinema's analysis of key films and issues—the most comprehensive in English—is unique. The book's pan-Africanist vision heralds important new strategies for appraising a cinema that increasingly attracts the attention of film students and Africanists.

Author : Mahir Şaul,Ralph A. Austen
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780821443507

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Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century by Mahir Şaul,Ralph A. Austen Pdf

African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state. Beginning in 1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), held in Burkina Faso, became the major showcase for these films. But since the early 1990s, a new phenomenon has come to dominate the African cinema world: mass-marketed films shot on less expensive video cameras. These “Nollywood” films, so named because many originate in southern Nigeria, are a thriving industry dominating the world of African cinema. Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century is the first book to bring together a set of essays offering a comparison of these two main African cinema modes. Contributors: Ralph A. Austen and Mahir Şaul, Jonathan Haynes, Onookome Okome, Birgit Meyer, Abdalla Uba Adamu, Matthias Krings, Vincent Bouchard, Laura Fair, Jane Bryce, Peter Rist, Stefan Sereda, Lindsey Green-Simms, and Cornelius Moore

Author : Panagiota Papaioannou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0493635173

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Francophone African Cinema by Panagiota Papaioannou Pdf

Author : Francois Pfaff
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1984-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015009291355

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The Cinema of Ousmane Sembene, A Pioneer of African Film by Francois Pfaff Pdf

The films of Ousmane Sembene are powerful representations of the newly emerging black African cinema. In this interpretive study of his most significant films, Francoise Pfaff examines Sembene's pioneering efforts over the last two decades. While focusing primarily on the realistic and symbolic levels of his works, the stylistic and technical aspects are also examined. Pfaff discusses the aesthetic, sociopolitical, and metaphysical values of Sembene's oeuvre within its African context. His depiction of the tension between traditional and modern African life is explored. Pfaff includes film stills and excerpts from interviews with Sembene and other African filmmakers. She concludes with comments about Sembene's contributions to our intercultural heritage.

Author : Valérie Orlando
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813579580

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New African Cinema by Valérie Orlando Pdf

New African Cinema examines the pressing social, cultural, economic, and historical issues explored by African filmmakers from the early post-colonial years into the new millennium. Offering an overview of the development of postcolonial African cinema since the 1960s, Valérie K. Orlando highlights the variations in content and themes that reflect the socio-cultural and political environments of filmmakers and the cultures they depict in their films. Orlando illuminates the diverse themes evident in the works of filmmakers such as Ousmane Sembène’s Ceddo (Senegal, 1977), Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga (Angola, 1972), Assia Djebar’s La Nouba des femmes de Mont Chenoua (The Circle of women of Mount Chenoua, Algeria, 1978), Zézé Gamboa’s The Hero (Angola, 2004) and Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu (Mauritania, 2014), among others. Orlando also considers the influence of major African film schools and their traditions, as well as European and American influences on the marketing and distribution of African film. For those familiar with the polemics of African film, or new to them, Orlando offers a cogent analytical approach that is engaging.

Author : Suzanne Crosta,Sada Niang,Alexie Tcheuyap
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253066541

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Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers by Suzanne Crosta,Sada Niang,Alexie Tcheuyap Pdf

Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers is groundbreaking edited collection which explores the contributions of Francophone African women to the field of documentary filmmaking. Rich in its scope and critical vision it constitutes a timely contribution to cutting-edge scholarly debates on African cinemas. Featuring 10 chapters from prominent film scholars, it explores the distinctive documentary work and contributions of Francophone African women filmmakers since the 1960s. It focuses documentaries by North African and Sub-Saharan women filmmakers, including the pioneering work of Safi Faye in Kaddu Beykat, Rama Thiaw's The Revolution Will Not be Televised, Katy Lena Ndiaye's Le Cercle des noyes and En attendant les hommes, Dalila Ennadre's Fama: Heroism Without Glory and Leila Kitani's Nos lieux interdits. Shunned from costly fictional- 35mm-filmmaking, Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers examines how these women engaged and experimented with documentary filmmaking in personal, evocative ways that countered the officially sanctioned, nationalist practice of show and teach/promote.

Author : Femi Okiremuete Shaka
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015062624690

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Modernity and the African Cinema by Femi Okiremuete Shaka Pdf

Providing an analysis of the implications of centuries of Euro-African contact and its effect on cinematic institutions in Africa, this book examines modern African film from the perspective of the global politics of subjectivity, agency, and identity construction.